Daily Learning Target(s): By the end of the week, students will be able to...

  • analyze literature as evidenced by completing and presenting an independent poetry project.
  • practice the skill of description and analysis as evidenced by writing journal entries for the junior portfolio.
Homework Due Today:

  • Catalog Poem Project
  • VER- Flashcards
Homework: None
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍
Important Deadlines/Reminders:
  1. Bring silent work to complete on Wednesday block day.
  2. Have handouts, binder paper, journals, writing utensils, and classwork with you every day

‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍Essential Questions:

  • How is personal narrative writing important to the junior portfolio?
Agenda
  1. Learning Logs: Update every day with homework, reminders, andessential questions.
  2. VER- Quiz
  3. Junior Portfolio Requirements
  4. Journals: "Risks"
    1. Title, Date.
    2. Write for the entire time, keep your pencil/pen moving.
    3. Write a full page or more.
    4. Count your words and put the total at the top.
We are all faced with decisions in different parts of our live's, some easy and some difficult. Sometimes a decision involves taking a risk or doing something outside of our comfort zone.
Describe a time you took a risk, either academically or personally. What did it involve? Why was it a risk? Did it pay off?